Comment & Opinion

While many of us are asleep, families huddle on the street, watching firefighters douse the flames consuming their home. At the same time, local Red C...

President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency — famously helmed by Elon Musk — has been decentralized, its functions transferred to the...

Electric bicycles, or e-bikes, have rapidly become a fixture on streets, sidewalks and trails, valued for their utility, accessibility and environment...

When I think of the word neighborhood, my mind drifts back to the worlds of Sesame Street and Mister Rogers — places where people knew each other’s na...

As Ronald Reagan famously noted, if you subsidize something, you’ll get more of it. But when it comes to higher education, that’s only half the story....

Taxpayers have spent $3.5 million since 2019 to lease cars for members of Congress and their staffers while also paying them up to $131,000 each for g...

We recently got word that consumer confidence is plumbing new depths, and in fact the numbers have long been stuck at a level of despondency that usua...

Warehouses have been growing tremendously over the past decade in Pennsylvania. In our recent report conducted with support from the Center for Rural ...

In the contention over the United States’ peace plan for Ukraine, the Europeans are in their accustomed role — carping from the sidelines. Not only ca...

Precarity is an omnipresent force lurking just under the surface of daily life for the average American family. Fear of an adverse expense spells the ...

In early November, U.S. Rep. Troy Balderson’s (R-Ohio) simple Affordable, Reliable, and Clean Energy Security Act underscored the titanic shift in the...

A federal judge has dismissed indictments against former FBI director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. The move should be a le...

In 2023, after Republicans’ defeat in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court race, I wrote, “The Left has done a stellar job convincing deep-pocketed national...

More than half a million women left the labor force this year. Many are mothers with young children. It's being called the next she-cession. This may ...

Fears that the Trump administration would leave the people of Ukraine to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brutal intentions are still very much aliv...

Chicago Public School employees spent an “exorbitant” $14.6 million on travel in 2023 and 2024, including to vacation spots like Disney World and Las ...

In Marcie Schellhammer’s column in the Nov. 15-16 edition of The Era, regarding poor customer service, she posed the question, “Is customer service a ...

As the holiday season begins, Main Streets across America are coming alive with lights, decorations and the energy of small businesses preparing for o...

The Department of Homeland Security paid a company — filled with Secretary Kristi Noem’s friends and allies — to create at least one of several politi...

I heard the report in early November. On a business channel, Target stores announced a new internal training program for the coming holidays called “1...